The Victim of Lust
The Victim of Lust, or Scenes in the Life of Rosa Fielding is an anonymously written Victorian pornographic novel published by William Dugdale in 1867.
In the third volume of his bibliographic trilogy on erotic books, Catena Librorum Tacendorum, after giving a one-page summary of the novel, Henry Spencer Ashbee concludes that "The book is very obscene, and possesses no literary merit whatever."[1][2] Gordon Grimley, in Wicked Victorians: an anthology of clandestine literature of the nineteenth century, called Dugdale "the most notorious of publisher/booksellers of pornography of his time."[3] An excerpt is contained in the anthology Erotic tales of the Victorian Age.[4]
According to Alfred Rose's Register of erotic books, the book is 135 pages long, illustrated, with coloured engravings.[5]
References[]
- ^ Fraxi, Pisanus (1885). Catena Librorum Tacendorum. London. p. 160.
- ^ Henry Spencer Ashbee (2007). "Bibliography of Forbidden Books -, Volume 3". . pp. 160–161. ISBN 9781602069718. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
- ^ Gordon Grimley (1970). "Wicked Victorians: an anthology of clandestine literature of the nineteenth century". . p. 171. Retrieved 2013-11-20.
- ^ "Erotic tales of the Victorian Age". . 1998. p. 36. ISBN 9781573922050. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
- ^ Alfred Rose (1965). "Register of erotic books, vel (sub haec specie) dubiorum". . Retrieved 2013-11-20.
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